Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ bugbuster ] on Friday 22 September 2006 19:22 \__
>
>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:18:44 +0000, a1b3r7a_lady wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, I'm curious to hear if there is a lot of Oracle being deployed on
>>> Linux, and to what degree such deployments are displacing the commercial
>>> Unices?
>>>
>>> In particular, I'm interested in hearing personal
>>> experiences/observations, or any credible statistics.
>>
>> You could start here:
>>
>> <http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/stories.html>
>>
>>
> <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/STRD-6QBLH3?OpenDocument&Site=eserverzseries>
>>
>>
> <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/SLOW-684Q9Z?OpenDocument&Site=eserverzseries>
>>
>> Bug
>>
> http://www.evolvingtimes.co.uk/technologies/linux/index.html
>
> Oracle on Linux
>
> Oracle #1 on Linux With More Than 80% Market Share
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Oracle's Linux commitment began in 1998 with the first commercial database
> | on Linux. Today, only Oracle provides support for the complete software
> | stack on Linux with applications, middleware, database and the operating
> | system, including Red Hat, Novell/SUSE and Asianux. All Oracle products
> | run on Linux, and Oracle Database on Linux meets the EAL4 Common
> | Criteria Standard, the highest security level for commercial software.
> | With Oracle's performance and reliability on Linux, you can standardizey
> | our IT infrastructure on low-cost commodity servers, and with Oracle
> | Real Application Clusters on Linux, you can scale out to meet demands on
> | the fly.
> `----
>
> Similar figures (~80% for Linux) in high-performance computing.
I dont think so...there's a difference between linux doing high-performance
computing, and something like solaris or aix doing high-performance
computing.
Never forget that linux in a high-end arena is still the motley patchwork
it is on lower-end systems. If I want to run Oracle on a high end system,
I want a system with hot swappable memory modules, hot swappable PCI cards,
and entire CPU boards that I can rip out without even having to change
runlevels in the operating system. And I want oracle to just cook along
and take it like a little bitch, and not die a horrible death from which
resurrection could be days---as it currently is with linux.
Linux is a lot like mysql. Its excellent on low and midrange systems, but
as soon as you ask it to do monstrously large tasks, you're suddenly on the
phone with Quantum, asking them why no more than two of their quad
fibrechannel cards will work on your Nifty Dell Xeon system simultaneously,
and what the hell you're supposed to do about trunking channels off of
your NetApp cluster.
And they'll go..."huh?"
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